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Mountain View (pte040/25.01.2005/15:45) - Internet search engine giant Google http://www.google.com has launched a search service for TV content. As the New York Times (NYT) http://www.nytimes.com reports, the service, Google Video beta, searches closed caption information that comes with programmes. Results list programmes with still images and text from the point where the search phrase was spoken. At present, the service only searches US channel content.
"We think TV is a big part of people's lives," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice- president of product management. "Ultimately we would like to have all TV programming indexed." Google video has been indexing US-based programmes from PBS, the NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN since December. "Over time, we plan to increase the number of television channels and video content available via Google Video but don't have more product details to share with you today," said a Google spokeswoman. The results that come up with the search will include programme and episode information such as channel, date and time. It also allows people to find the next time and channel where a programme will be aired locally using a US zip code function.
Yahoo has already developed a similar type of video search for webcasts and TV clips. The service offers direct links to websites with movies or other clips relevant to the search query, but does not give information on when the search query occurred. According to a spokeswoman from the Financial Times, Yahoo was adding captioning for Bloomberg, BBC and BskyB broadcasts.
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